Erin Barbaro

Assitant Director, CARES / Geographic Information Systems Specialist


128 Mumford Hall
University Of Missouri–Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
Tel: (573) 884-8721
Fax: (573) 884=2199
E-mail: BarbaroE@missouri.edu

Education

  • M.A., Geography, University of Missouri, 2003
  • B.A., Geography, University of Missouri, 2000

Post-M.A. Coursework

  • Spatial Analysis for Public Policy - University of Missouri School of Public Affairs - Fall Semester 2005

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Fulcher. C.F., Kathlene, L., Medina-Fulcher, R., Peters Moschetti, W., & Erin Barbaro. Accessing and Using Food Data to Support Collaborative Policy Decisions. Food Policy Conference: From Neighborhood to Nation. Portland, Oregon. May 2011.

  • Lead technical trainer: Using Community Issues Management (CIM) as a Facilitation Technology. Training module presented to the United Way of the Quad Cities. April 2011.

  • Lead technical trainer: Using Community Issues Management (CIM) as a Facilitation Technology. Training module presented to the Columbia/Boone County Health Department. March 2010.

  • Lead technical trainer: Using Community Issues Management (CIM) as a Facilitation Technology. Training module presented to the United Way of Central Maryland. March 2010.

  • Lead technical trainer: Using Community Issues Management (CIM) as a Facilitation Technology. Training module presented to the Columbia/Boone County Health Department. March 2010.

  • Lead technical trainer: Using Community Issues Management (CIM) as a Facilitation Technology. Training module presented to the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. October 2010.

  • Shores, E.F., Grace, C., Barbaro, E., Barbaro, M.C., & Flenner, M. (2009). Reducing Risks for Young Children: Indicators Research Can Guide Disaster Preparedness of the Early Childhood Sector Child Indicators Research, Volume 2, Number 3 (September), 293-301.

  • Barnett, Chris and Erin Barbaro. Information for Community Decisions. The Academy for Leadership in Local Governance. Columbia, Missouri. March 2008.

  • Shores, E.F., Heath, J., Barbaro, E., Barbaro, M.C., & Grace, C. (2007). Putting young children on disaster maps; The challenges of child care data integration. Journal of Emergency Management, 5 (July-August), 47-56.

  • Shores, Elizabeth F., and Erin Barbaro. Indicators of Early Childhood Disaster Risk: Using Data for Strategic Improvements in Emergency Preparedness. International Society for Child Indicators Conference. Chicago, Illinois. June 2007.

  • Barbaro, Erin. Beyond Traditional Economic Development : Spatial Information Systems for Regional Decision Support. Regional Economic Resource Conference. Columbia, Missouri. May 2007.

  • Barbaro, Erin, David Hardy and Steve Katsinas. Interactive Mapping and Data Mining: The Analysis and Mapping of Information about Rural America. 5th Annual Rural Community College Alliance Conference. Lexington, Kentucky. September 2006.

  • Barbaro, Erin. Sharing Data for Emergency Preparedness: Child Care Resource and Referrals and the Early Childhood Atlas. NACCRRA Institute for Professional Development. Albuquerque, New Mexico. August 2006.

  • Fulcher, Chris and Erin Wilson. A Dynamic Atlas of Community Knowledge: A Workshop for Using Internet GIS as a Tool for Decision Support. 4th International Meeting of the Community Indicators Consortium. Burlington, Vermont. December 2005.

  • Fulcher, Chris and Erin Wilson. Place-Based Storytelling: Visualizing and Mapping Your College Community. 4th Annual Rural Community College Alliance - Rural Community College Initiative Conference. Duluth, Minnesota. September 2005.

  • Wilson, Erin. Utilizing Internet Mapping to Support Rural Health Care. Oral Presentation. 14th Annual Colorado Rural Health Conference. Longmont, Colorado. June 2005.

  • Wilson, Erin. Mapping Early Childhood Education: Visualizing Health, Early Education and Communities through Internet Mapping. Oral Presentation. OPEN Initiative Executive Committee. Columbia, Missouri. May 2005.

  • Wilson, Erin. The Use of Internet Mapping as a Tool to Support Community Decision Making. Oral Presentation. Cambio de Colores Conference. Columbia, Missouri. March 2005.

  • Wilson, Erin. Supporting Missouri's Children: Visualizing Health, Early Education and Communities through Internet Mapping. Oral Presentation. Missouri Health Start Association Winter Training Conference. Lake Ozark, Missouri. February 2005.

  • Wilson, Erin. Utilizing Internet Mapping to Support Rural Health Care. Oral Presentation. Colorado Rural Health Council Meeting. Denver, Colorado. January 2005.

  • Wilson, Erin and Don Scott. Using Source Water Assessments to Encourage Protection. Oral Presentation. Eighteenth Annual Association of State Drinking Water Administrators Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. October 2003.

  • Wilson, Erin. The Source Water Inventory Project: Developing a User-Friendly Website to Serve the Project Findings. Poster Presentation. Twenty-Third Annual ESRI International Users Conference. San Diego, California. July 2003.

  • Wilson, Erin. Politics and The Land Ethic: A Case Study of the Elk Reintroduction in Missouri. University of Missouri-Columbia. Master's Thesis. May 2003.

  • Wilson, Erin and Craig Callison. The Source Water Inventory Project: Developing a User-Friendly Website to Serve the Project Findings. Poster Presentation. Eighth Annual Missouri GIS Conference. Columbia, Missouri. March 2003.

  • Wilson, Erin. Politics and The Land Ethic: A Case Study of the Proposed Elk Reintroduction in Missouri. Oral Presentation. Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Sciences. April 2002.

Additional Training/Coursework

  • April, 2007. Advanced JavaScript Programming. Course offered by the University of Missouri-St. Louis Continuing Education & Outreach Microcomputer Program
  • February, 2007. Intermediate JavaScript Programming. Course offered by the University of Missouri-St. Louis Continuing Education & Outreach Microcomputer Program
  • February, 2007. Introduction to JavaScript Programming. Course offered by the University of Missouri-St. Louis Continuing Education & Outreach Microcomputer Program
  • November, 2006. Using the Census' American Community Survey. Course offered by statistics.com
  • March, 2005. Introduction to ArcGIS I. Course offered by ESRI.
  • February, 2003. Introduction to Programming Concepts. Course offered by the University of Missouri-St. Louis Continuing Education & Outreach Microcomputer Program

Graduate Experience

  • Adjunct Instructor, 2002, Introduction to Geography, Stephens College
  • Head Teaching Assistant, 2001-2002, World Regional Geography, University of Missouri
  • Teaching Assistant, 2000-2001, World Regional Geography and Introduction to Cultural Geography, University of Missouri
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